Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C News and ihave/sendme
Message-ID: <1990Mar19.165025.22414@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Mar17.070106.3572@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 90 16:50:25 GMT

In article <1990Mar17.070106.3572@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
>I have a need to run a batched Ihave/Sendme link with a site.  This is bad
>enough, but I ALSO want to delay the "ihave"s for 24 hours.  Ideally we
>would send both the article list and resulting traffic (from the "sendme")
>compressed...

The documentation, and the example in the sample sys file, should suffice
for figuring out how to set up an ihave/sendme feed.  Admittedly it is not
the simplest thing in the world, but that's ihave/sendme for you.  The
example includes compression for all traffic flowing over the link.

The 24-hour delay is a little more complicated to arrange, but feasible.
Rather than having the sys file feed article names directly into the
out.going/foo/todo file, have it put them somewhere else where the
batcher won't find them.  Then periodically concatenate that file onto
the end of out.going/foo/todo.  (Actually, you may want to add an
intermediate stage or two to get a better approximation of an exact
24-hour delay, if that matters.)
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